In the Brazilian city of Salvador at least 13 individuals have been killed in a shootout that took place between police and suspects of an attempted armed robbery.
Now here comes a train that not only thinks it can, it knows that it can. In a YouTube video posted on Tuesday, a guy braving the cold and waiting for trains to go by captured a rare and awe inspiring locomotive moment that soon went viral.
Speaking to supporters in Caracas before meeting with Ernesto Samper, the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a relationship with the United States based on diplomacy and demanded an end to what he sees as a U.S. backed plan to destabilize his government.
After making an announcement that he was initiating a government investigation into allegations of corruption directed at him, his wife, and his finance minister, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, turning away from the microphone, was heard to say “Ya se que no aplauden,” which translates to “I already knew they don’t clap.”
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered the start of an investigation into the purchases of his home, a house bought by his wife, and the home of his finance minister.
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, the man who officially accused high ranking government off's Aicials of covering up an Iranian connection to the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, had drafted an arrest warrant for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner before dying on Jan. 19.
The United Nations has formally denounced the murders of Moisés Sánchez Cerezo, a Mexican journalist recently found killed weeks after his disappearance, and Kenji Goto, a Japanese freelancer assassinated by Islamist extremists in Syria.
Vinicius Lages Tourism Minister for Brazil has expressed that he is not worried that Rio de Janeiro’s recent increase in violence might keep potential visitors from attending the 2016 Olympic Games.
Pope Francis had officially decreed that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, a man who was killed in 1980 because of his Catholic faith, is now a martyr.
Mexican journalists face the very real threat of death from drug cartels who do not wish to be reported on. This, coupled with a lack of faith in what increasingly appears to be a corrupt police force, has led one citizen of Tamaulipas, one of Mexico’s most violent states, to take up the mantle of the media and start reporting on all drug related activity.
This Super Bowl Sunday nearly a 1,000 Chicago flights have been canceled due to a slow-moving winter storm that has blanketed a huge part of the Plains and Midwest.
Tens of thousands of politically motivated Spaniards marched through Madrid on Saturday in order to display their solidarity of young radical leftist party.
Two pilots are dead after a helicopter attempting to smuggle nearly a ton of hashish into the Malaga province of Spain crashed on Tuesday into an electricity pylon during a police chase.
The much anticipated IndyCar Series opener that was scheduled for March in the Brazilian capital city of Brasília has been canceled. Brazilian public prosecutors have judged the race would end up costing the local government too much and have decided to pull the plug on the heavily promoted event.
Senior Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died under suspect circumstances on Jan. 18, was allegedly forced to borrow a gun from a colleague because he did not trust the police that were charged with protecting him.
